Is my ATS being censored?

Weird thing happens to me from time to time on ATS. Certain (random seeming) threads come up censored with little colored blocks. If I open a whole
bunch of threads in tabbed browsing they all open fine. Then, for no reason I can discern, one of the tabs might look like this:

ATS does have TERMS & CONDITIONS OF USE that you agreed to abide by when registered. If
one wants to call that "censoring" then ok.

However, in your case, seems to be an issue on your end. We have had no other complaints and I know staff haven't had any issues. I would make run
some scans such as CCleaner (and there are many more like it) and make sure you have a good anti-virus software (not Norton or MaCafee)...something
like AVG....

No I wasn't taking a snipe at the T&Cs... just this weird effect that I don't understand.

I'm pretty tech savvy and my laptop is well looked after ITO anti-virus software etc. I REALLY don't think it's malware of some description. Also
this effect doesn't happen on any other site on the 'net. Just ATS. And it doesn't happen regularly. Most threads open fine. Just now and again a
particular thread gets 'the treatment' and leaves me scratching my head. But if not one other ATSer has complained of this then I guess it MUST be
something on my side. Which is a completely baffling thought...

Originally posted by Hefficide
OS and version
Browser and version
Browser plug-ins running

Good point Heff. I don't think "they" will get me if eveyone knows the basics of my laptop. :-) So sure:
I'm running:
Windows 7
Google Chrome 21.0.1180.79 - with minimal extensions. REALLY nothing that changes site output or alters scripts or anything like that.

Thank you so much to Valiant and Doodle - and Heff for the link. I can relax my "conspiracy muscle" it seems. ATS is NOT specifically hiding
something from me after all!

But I DO wonder why it only happened to me on ATS? maybe there is something on ATS that trips Chrome up in this way and I don't frequent other sites
with this feature? Who knows. Anyhoo... seems the issue is resolved. Thank you everyone!

I'm going to go ahead and close the thread, since we have an answer (it's a Google conspiracy!), and I'm pretty sure the title is going to take us
beyond the intent of the question and the scope of BB&Q.

Of course, closing the thread might be considered censorship, but if anyone is concerned, by all means
send me a private message and I'll be happy to talk about it,
just like always.

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